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CrateDB

Approaching Agent-Ready
Agent-Ready SaaS Index · crate.io · scored 2026-05-09 · rubric v2.0
Score 74 / 100
Database Management
Free tier
Public API

CrateDB scores 74/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; self-serve checkout is available; usage-based / per-token pricing is published; a free entry path exists.

See CrateDB pricing summaryLive pricing page
Pricing
CrateDB pricing
As of 2026-05-09 · crate.io/pricing
Free
Free
2 vCPUs
2 GB RAM
8 GB storage
no credit card required
Shared
$0.073
metered
Up to 8 shared vCPUs
12 GB RAM
1 TB storage
Backups once per day
Dedicated
$0.246
metered
Up to 9 nodes
144 vCPUs
495 GB RAM
72 TB storage
Backups once per hour
Custom
Sales
Contact sales
Unlimited nodes
Custom compute options
Unlimited storage
Premium support
Score breakdown · rubric v2.0
How CrateDB scores on the agent-ready dimensions

Public pricing visibility

15 / 15

Self-serve checkout

15 / 15

Public API + docs

0 / 20

Usage-based / metered pricing

20 / 20

Free entry path

7 / 7

No sales call required

7 / 7

Card / wallet / x402 payment

5 / 6

Machine-readable bonus (MCP / OpenAPI)

5 / 10

Total
74 / 100
Effective pricing
What it actually costs at typical scale
Shared tier, 730 hours (approx. 1 month) usage
$53.3/mo
· Continuous usage for a full month (730 hours)· Base configuration as listed
Confidence: high
Dedicated tier, 730 hours usage
$179.6/mo
· Continuous usage for a full month (730 hours)· Base configuration as listed
Confidence: high
Agent purchase verdict
Can an autonomous agent transact here?
Agent-ready
LLM score: 85/100

Can create account

Yes

Can enter payment method

Yes

Can upgrade plan

Yes

Can buy more usage

Yes

Can cancel online

Unknown

Payment methods

card
invoice

Human approval recommended

No

Pricing transparency

full

Purchase motion

self_serve

Demo required

No

Quote required

No

Annual commit required

Unknown

Auto-renewal mentioned

No

Cancellation policy visible

No

Refund policy visible

No

Invoice payment available

Yes

Purchase orders supported

Unknown

MSA required

Unknown

DPA available

Unknown

Security review required

Unknown

Trial

Available, no card

API readiness
API & developer surface

API-first product

Unknown

Sandbox present

Unknown

Webhooks

Unknown

MCP mentioned

Yes

Competitive intel
Positioning & ecosystem
Headline

“Deploy CrateDB where your data resides.”

Buyer persona

enterprise
developer

Integrations mentioned
AWS
Azure
GCP
Agent purchase simulation
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from CrateDB?
✓

Discover price

✓

Select a plan

✗

Pay per task

✓

Avoid a sales call

✗

API docs without auth

✗

Estimate cost upfront

Analysis
Pros and cons for AI agents
Observational summary written by xpay from the signals captured on 2026-05-06. Not a review of the product — only of its current pricing posture for agent buyers.
✓ For an AI agent
  • Pricing is publicly visible on an indexable page — agents can read tiers without scraping past auth.
  • Every advertised tier is self-serve; no tier requires scheduling a call.
  • A free tier exists, lowering the bar for an agent builder to prototype before committing budget.
◐ Opportunities for the provider
  • No per-unit price was advertised, so an agent has no way to estimate the cost of a single task.
  • API documentation is gated or absent; an agent cannot inspect the integration surface without authentication.
  • No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
One-line fix
How CrateDB could lift its score

Add a per-unit price (e.g. $X / 1K calls) to the pricing page so an agent can compute its own cost before committing.

pricing_visible

true

headline_phrasing

Pricing — Webinar: Why Industrial IoT Data Breaks Traditional Databases — and What to Do About It

tier_count

4

lowest_paid_entry_usd

null

free_tier

true

free_tier_terms

null

per_unit_price

$0.073 / hour

annual_required

false

self_serve_paid_tiers

0

sales_only_tiers

1

public_api_docs_url

https://cratedb.com/docs/guide/

api_docs_auth_walled

false

ai_pricing_json_present

false

agents_txt_present

false

anonymous_purchase_path

false

per_unit_classification

{"unit_class":"compute_time","confidence":"low","agent_task_price_forecastable":"partial","rejected_reason":null,"evidence_text":"$0.073 / hour"}

usage_headline_present

false

custom_tier_present

true

agent_friendly

{"ai_pricing_json":false,"agents_txt":false,"llms_txt":false,"sitemap_xml":true,"mcp_server_card":false,"agent_skills_index":false,"x402_supported":false}

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Page heading: Pricing
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Price tokens (2): $0.073 / hour Start your free · $0.246 / hour
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Agent-Ready Spec
CrateDB
Approaching Agent-Ready

74

/ 100 (rubric v2.0)
Category

Database Management

Pricing model

Pricing — Webinar: Why Industrial IoT Data Breaks Traditional Databases — and What to Do About It

Tier count

4

Free tier

Yes

Lowest paid entry

Sales-led

Per-unit price

$0.073 / hour

Self-serve / sales-only tiers

0 / 1

Public API docs

Public

Anonymous purchase path

No

Machine-readable pricing

Not published

Last refreshed

2026-05-09

Pricing intelligenceInsights extracted from crate.io/pricing
Pricing model

Tier-based subscription

Agent-purchase verdict
Agent-ready
85/100 · v2.1
Canonical answer

CrateDB pricing starts at $0.073 per hour for the Shared plan; a free plan is available; paid plans go up to $0.246 per hour. Billed hourly.

Cheapest entry

Free plan (Free)

Actions
Open live pricing page
Verdict reflects Approaching Agent-Ready status under rubric v2.0. Source observed at https://crate.io/pricing.
Agent-friendly features1 of 7 present
Discovery files and protocols
Side-channel signals — informational, not part of the score. Each protocol is independent; adoption signals the publisher is thinking about agent buyers.

ai-pricing.json

agents.txt

llms.txt

sitemap.xml

MCP Server Card

Agent Skills

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